Creative Guidelines
Think you’ve got what it takes as an artist? Submit your work!
Elan is a magazine for the young, hip Muslim American. Elan highlights the culture and lifestyle of Muslim Americans, realizing unity within our diversity. Our target audience is Muslim American men and women, from age ranges of 18-32.
Elan also prides itself on its excellent and diverse artistic content, ranging from photography, to illustrations, to photo montages. We aim for sharp, creative, and professional looking photography as well as edgy, and hip illustrations. Elan features a broad range of topics of interest to the Muslims American world, from featured artists, celebrities, business, destinations, fashion, food, sports, heritage, and culture. We are looking to expand and build our network of artists throughout the United States as well as the world, so please, do feel free to submit your portfolio for consideration!
To submit your portfolio for consideration, please email us a letter of introduction, a website of your work, your resume of related work and print experience, your preferred medium of working, and your interests/specialties in your artwork/photography. Please no follow up calls. We will call you if we are interested or when we find an appropriate assignment to fit with your work.
To submit a pitch for a future photo essay, interview, fashion story, etc., please email the Creative Director at , along with the above materials required for portfolio consideration, a proposal of your story idea, and how you plan to execute it in detail. Please keep in mind our targeted demographic in pitching your ideas.
To submit artwork for a story, which has already been assigned to you by Elan, please discuss specifics with the Creative Director. We accept high resolution TIFF or RAW images, either originals or scanned from originals. Please no analog film, or original artwork. All artwork must be submitted electronically via email or ftp access.
Editorial Guidelines
Editorial Submission Guidelines
Want to write for us? Here’s how.
1. Be witty, smart, casual, edgy, satirical, yet still in a strong, clear and concise writing style. We look for unique pitches or unique angles on mainstream topics/stories. Often, we’ll get numerous pitches about a single topic and we’ll go with the freshest, most intriguing approach. We’re looking for ideas that fall under the radar, as well as mainstream issues and how they all reflect and relate to Muslim youth.
3. Anyone interested in contributing to Elan needs to submit 2-3 writing samples (If you don’t have clips, write us a 200-word “Undercurrents” piece.)
4 Submit a resume and/or CV.
5. Send us a short, succinct pitch, no longer than two or three paragraphs. Please include all relevant info. including the specific department and section you are pitching for (please see departments listed below), who you plan on interviewing for the piece (if relevant,) whether or not you have contact info. for the interviews and of course your specific, exclusive angle on the piece.
We are looking for freelancers in the following departments (please pick up a copy of the magazine to see examples of other articles):
FEATURES
Every issue, we include three 1,500-word articles highlighting major trends, individuals and ideas based on the theme of the publication.
Freestyle
Latest trends in international fashion scene
Signe
Highlights of major Muslim designers
Local TM
Everyday fashion in different locales
Fashion Spread
Destination
Unique travel trends/destinations
Taxistand
Travel tips/advice from locals
Lost in Translation
Key phrases and words travelers should learn before venturing to a destination
News/Politics
The bottom line
Based on theme of mag, focusing on key figures in business world or specific trends (profiles, exposes, etc)
Uneditied
Op-ed pieces, columns, blogs and the like from individuals around the world on relevant political stories and issues
Eye on The World
Tackling major news events/topics of the day
Eclectic Palette
Profiles/highlights of artists, authors, musicians, directors and their work
Art, books, film, music, and architecture/design
Inheritance
Cultivating History
Columns/pieces on Islamic history, scholarly advances, innovations, etc by an academic or expert in the field.
Off The Record
Interactive Blog
Health & Beauty
Simply Irresistable
Nutritional advice, lifestyle advice, methods of improving quality of life
Timeless Remedies
Medicinal section – ancient and traditional therapies/cures
Natural beauty advice
Email all pitch, resume and writing clips directly to the EIC, Nida Khan, at . We are a quarterly publication, working 2 months in advance so please submit ideas accordingly and be patient to receive a response.
Submission Guidelines
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